Overall buckling behavior of 460MPa high strength steel columns: Experimental investigation and design method

2012 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 140-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huiyong Ban ◽  
Gang Shi ◽  
Yongjiu Shi ◽  
Yuanqing Wang
2016 ◽  
Vol 123 ◽  
pp. 18-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tian-Ji Li ◽  
Guo-Qiang Li ◽  
Siu-Lai Chan ◽  
Yan-Bo Wang

2011 ◽  
Vol 374-377 ◽  
pp. 2430-2436
Author(s):  
Gang Shi ◽  
Zhao Liu ◽  
Yong Zhang ◽  
Yong Jiu Shi ◽  
Yuan Qing Wang

High strength steel sections have been increasingly used in buildings and bridges, and steel angles have also been widely used in many steel structures, especially in transmission towers and long span trusses. However, high strength steel exhibits mechanical properties that are quite different from ordinary strength steel, and hence, the local buckling behavior of steel equal angle members under axial compression varies with the steel strength. However, there is a lack of research on the relationship of the local buckling behavior of steel equal angle members under axial compression with the steel strength. A finite element model is developed in this paper to analyze the local buckling behavior of steel equal angle members under axial compression, and study its relationship with the steel strength and the width-to-thickness ratio of the angle leg. The finite element analysis (FEA) results are compared with the corresponding design method in the American code AISC 360-05, which provides a reference for the related design.


Fire Research ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hélder D. Craveiro ◽  
João Paulo C. Rodrigues ◽  
Luís M. Laím

Cold-formed steel (CFS) profiles with a wide range of cross-section shapes are commonly used in building construction industry. Nowadays several cross-sections can be built using the available standard single sections (C, U, Σ, etc.), namely open built-up and closed built-up cross-sections. This paper reports an extensive experimental investigation on the behavior of single and built-up cold-formed steel columns at both ambient and simulated fire conditions considering the effect of restraint to thermal elongation. The buckling behavior, ultimate loads and failure modes, of different types of CFS columns at both ambient and simulated fire conditions with restraint to thermal elongation, are presented and compared. Regarding the buckling tests at ambient temperature it was observed that the use of built-up cross-sections ensures significantly higher values of buckling loads. Especially for the built-up cross-sections the failure modes were characterized by the interaction of individual buckling modes, namely flexural about the minor axis, distortional and local buckling. Regarding the fire tests, it is clear that the same levels of restraint used in the experimental investigation induce different rates in the generated restraining forces due to thermal elongation of the columns. Another conclusion that can be drawn from the results is that by increasing the level of restraint to thermal elongation the failure of the columns is controlled by the generated restraining forces, whereas for lower levels of restraint the temperature plays a more important role. Hence, higher levels of imposed restraint to thermal elongation will lead to higher values of generated restraining forces and eventually to lower values of critical temperature and time.


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